Comparing Two Poems The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb and Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney The poems “The Old Familiar Faces” by Charles Lamb and “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney have both similarities and difference. Both are sad poems about tragedies and want to inspire pity in the reader. Also both of them had a very similar structure. However, the diction is completely different as well as the imagery. Both poems explore sensations of grief, sadness, mortality and having to cope with the disappearance of loved ones.
Armitage regularly refers to the harmonium as a ‘he’ supporting the fact that it could be his father. The word ‘sorry’ could represent strong feelings due to its many connotations. In the poem, the speaker is saying sorry as the harmonium is leaving. This could show the reader that the speaker feels he has disappointed him or perhaps could show regret from the speaker about previous treatment of the harmonium. In addition, it could show that the speaker feels he didn’t spend enough time with the harmonium.
In the second stanza, last line, “share in its shame” represents the foolishness the speaker feels for loving that woman. In the third stanza, the speaker does not like hearing the lover’s name after their separation. He compares hearing her name to the sound of a “knell” which means a bell usually used in funerals or deaths. By this word choice, the speaker tells the reader just how deep his sorrow is, comparing hearing her name to hearing death bells each and every time. It causes him to question why he ever loved his ex-lover.
He recognizes that the brother of his dying partner never got to experience love like he did—the fear of abnormality held him back from being able to fully open his heart to the eccentricities of his brother’s personality. The excellent writing of Lassell helps connect this theme in the beginning, middle, and end of the poem. Throughout the entire reading, you feel sorrow for the partner, and losses he had and are experiencing currently. Although the love between the two lovers is strong, there is a
“As I Grew Older” mainly talks about a dream from a long time ago. His dream were unable to be fulfilled because in the poem Hughes says “The wall”, and the wall may represent as the racism, discrimination and segregation. Because of this “wall”, it is trying to block his dream from being fulfilled. b. Similarity #2 Another similarity of this bothe poems is their use of literary device such as imagery to express a vivid images of what happens to a dream that is not fulfilled. i.
He continually juxtaposes images of the passion he felt for the woman he loved with the loneliness he experiences in the present. He is now at some distance from the relationship and so acknowledges, “tonight I can write the saddest lines,” suggesting that the pain he suffered after losing his lover had previously prevented any reminiscences or descriptions of it. While the pain he experienced had blocked his creative energies in the past, he is now able to write about their relationship and find some comfort in “the verse [that] falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.” Love and Passion Throughout the poem, the speaker expresses his great love for a woman with whom he had a passionate romance. He remembers physical details: “her great still eyes,” “her voice, her bright body,” “her infinite eyes.” He also remembers kissing her “again and again under the endless sky” admitting “how I loved her.” His love for her is still evident even though he states twice “I no longer love her, that’s certain.” The remembrance of their love is still too painful to allow
It is often said that the sense of loss is conveyed through Tennyson's poetry, the death of Hallam has a clear effect on how his pieces of work are written, also the amount that Tennyson is affected changes between poems, for instance "Break, Break, Break" never once mentions that Hallam is dead, but the way that Tennyson writes the poem suggests that he has lost someone, whereas in the poem from "In Memoriam" that begins "I held it truth, with him who sings" throws out the concept of death right from the start, this could perhaps show that Tennyson is no longer fazed about writing about death, so his mentality is changed as well. It is also important to notice that throughout "In Memoriam" love and grief are the most presented themes, so much so that they are even capitalized at some points. 'Break, Break, Break' begins with "Break, Break, Break, on thy cold gray stones, O Sea!" 'cold gray stones' shows that Tennyson's world is dull and bleak, and the repetition of 'Break' brings about a sense of predictability and inactivity, as the same thing happens over and over, and it emphasizes that the waves of the sea will continue to keep breaking, and also no matter what, time goes on, and is not "dead" like Tennyson describes it later on in the poem.The next lines "and I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me." this shows that Tennyson can not put into words how he feels at the time because he is so affected by the death of Hallam, but the other people on the beach (The boy and the sailor) can.
Stop All The Clocks by W H Auden How do language, imagery and structure contribute to the poem’s mood? Stop All The Clocks, by W H Auden, is an emotional poem, of deep sadness, that drenches the poet’s feeling on how he felt since he has lost his loved one. Auden uses a variety of language and imagery to show how he is feeling about the death of the man that he loves. In this essay, I will explore how the language, imagery and structure of the poem contribute to its mood. The poems structure is that so it has four quatrains, this means that it has four stanzas whereby each of them has four lines.
Once you read a few of his works you can tell that his misfortune appears to be the groundwork for many of his famous pieces especially in The Raven and Annabel Lee. In fact, many of his themes consistently in his writings were of love and death, again an almost reflection of his own life. One aspect of Poe's poetry that reflects his personal life is that of the grieving man. After the death of his mother, his adoptive mother and even his wife, it was amazing that Poe had the strength to go on. We can only assume that some of the feelings Poe experienced are the same as the ones the grieving man feels in "Annabel Lee".
One of Eliot’s poems which I focused on was The Love song of Alfred J Prufrock, which presents the narrator- Prufrock, and his struggle to find love, in the format of a dramatic monologue. Within the poem, Eliot uses the words ‘grown slightly bald’ to construct the anxious, yet egotistic mind-set of the character, and how he seems to fixate on his flaws, and uses them as an excuse for his non-existent relationship. The word ’bald’ also reflects how he doesn’t feel that he is an entire man any more, and as he ages, he is losing the aesthetic features which would draw women towards him. Similarly ‘for I have known them all already’ presents his neglect towards the females around him, with ‘already’ implying that he no longer sees any interest in them ‘, with ‘all’ reflecting the fragmentation of the female body as he tries to excuse himself. Within When You are Old, Yeats presents the narrator reflecting upon the mysteries of their life, and how relationships have affected them in the past- both positively and negatively.